Don Fedyk is a Senior Technical Advisor for Nortel Networks' Standards Group specializing in IP and Optical Control Plane Routing. He has nearly 20 years experience in routing and network protocols. Don initially developed routing systems on several Nortel packet switched data platforms and now works on routing standards. Don is an authority on Routing System design for both connectionless and path oriented routing. Don is a co-author of several GMPLS drafts and an active follower of several the IETF WGs including CCAMP, MPLS, Traffic engineering, Routing Area WG, PWE3, PPVPN. Don received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada .